Post-Tsunami Recovery: Issues and Challenges in Sri Lanka
Jayasuriya, Sisira; Steele, Paul; Weerakoon, Dushni | October 2005
Abstract
The tsunami of December 26 2004 left Sri Lanka with over 30,000 people dead, several hundred thousand displaced, and massive damage to infrastructure and capital assets (estimated at around US$ 1 billion (4.5 per cent of GDP)) particularly in tourism and fisheries sectors. The medium-term financing needs were estimated to be around US$ 1.5-1.6 billion (7.5 per cent of GDP). It is expected to reduce 2005 GDP by around 0.5 - 1.0%. With no previous history of such disasters Sri Lanka was quite unprepared for the tsunami. But with a massive community response followed by government and international action, it was able to implement an initial relief effort that, in the circumstances can be termed a success Promised external assistance - a total of US$ 2.2 billion over the next 2-3 years - appeared to be more than adequate to cover reconstruction costs in full. But problems have emerged with relief payments, providing credit facilities, distribution of funds, coordination of reconstruction activities, and mismanagement of funds. Clearly the reconstruction phase poses complex and difficult challenges. Housing is the households’ main concern. Reconstruction and repairs have been hampered by the ‘no-build’ coastal buffer zone, cuts to relief payments and cost increases. Progress has been slow, uneven, and concentrated in the south and southeast, though the worst affected areas are in the east and northeast
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Jayasuriya, Sisira; Steele, Paul; Weerakoon, Dushni. 2005. Post-Tsunami Recovery: Issues and Challenges in Sri Lanka. © Asian Development Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/3625. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.Keywords
Environmental Impact Assessment
Environmental Health Hazards
Environmental Guidelines
Environmental Services
Environmental Costs
Environmental Conditions
Environmental Action Plans
Environmental Cleanup
Project Evaluation
Program Evaluation
Project Evaluation & Review Technique
Agricultural and Environmental Sectors
Project Evaluation
Program Evaluation
Performance Evaluation
Environmental Surveys
Environmental Statistics
Environmental Planning
Environmental Management
Environmental Education
Nature Protection
Landscape Protection
Program management
Environmental disasters
Environmental disasters
Oil spills prevention
Life support systems
Global environmental change
Extreme environments
Ecological disturbances
Balance of nature
Ecological risk assessment
Land degradation
Glacial erosion
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